Surviving the Great Plague
Vanessa Harding describes the events of the 1665 Great Plague and explains how people at the time sought to cope with the disease
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Published: May 15, 2020 at 4:01 PM
As we grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, historian Vanessa Harding describes the events of the Great Plague that afflicted London in 1665, and explains how people at the time sought to cope with the disease.
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